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Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post about President Obama referring to the cash for clunkers program a great "success". Even though the president said that the program exceeded expectations, I wrote about the major questions surrounding the program that undermine the veracity of Obama's...
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As the debate about health care reform continues and the financial realities of the liberals' reform plan become more apparent each day, new worries are arising about what the ultimate cost of reform will be to the American people. Adding to the debate is a recent story about the reality of the liberal...
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$18,000,000 to redesign a website that was lunched less than 5 months ago… that makes sense! ABC News reports: For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web...
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A Washington Post story today noted that, according to economist Mark Zandi, approximately fourteeen percent of the stimulus money has been spent. That article noted the following: "When the measure [ the stimulus] passed, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that about a quarter...
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Earlier this week, I wrote on this blog about a Washington Post editorial that advocated for some major changes for the United States Postal Service to help it become more financially stable. Many people realize that the post office continues to lose money and needs to make some dramatic changes soon...
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Recent polls about the Obama administration have begun to show a slow decline in the public support he is receiving. The decisions related to the automobile industry continue to be very unpopular but in some recent polls, Obama's approval rating has also declined at a modest rate. Additionally, in...
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I understand that regional offices and constituent services are very important for members of Congress who actually want to communicate with their districts. Home offices are not necessarily cheap, and they need decent staff to run smoothly. Still, while these things are important, they are not as important...
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The results from a new Wall Street Journal/NBC news poll should should be encouraging to many people, including myself, who were wondering when President Obama would start to be accountable (from a polling perspective) for the unpopular policies that the administration has endorsed and strongly advocated...
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This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that four months after passing the largest spending...
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PAYGO sounds like a good policy to many of those who understand the broad principle behind it but who have not reviewed some of the details of it. Nonetheless, President Obama is strongly supportive of this piece of legislation. As a CBSNews.com blog reported this week , "President Obama on Tuesday...
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I recently wrote a blog post for Townhall.com about Vice President Joe Biden's recent statement that $600 million dollars is not a lot of money. Some people who saw that story would probably state that Biden's statement was another innocent verbal mistake from a person who is known for such mistakes...
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Several weeks ago, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote an important op-ed entitled “ In Praise of Dullness ” about a study of the qualities often found in successful CEOs. Considering the government’s high-profile role these days in the private sector (the automobile...
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Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) has become the poster child for everything that is wrong with the earmarking process. (Read a prior blog post on the Murtha Airport .) He uses his seniority and position on the Appropriations Committee to secure earmarks which he then passes on to companies he has personal relationships...
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It's easy to knock the earmark process when citing examples like $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut or $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa. But when it comes to defense earmarks meant to protect our men and women in battle, it...
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"Transparent government is good government, and good government has nothing to hide from the taxpayers who fund it." So said Joe Calomino , Illinois State Director for Americans for Prosperity, in response to the Illinois legislature passing House Bill 35 last week, also known as the Illinois...